Breaking, breaking – this just in: Holyrood can change things!
Tracey Dalling sets out what some creative thinking could achieve for raising revenue for public services Faced with demands for
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National utopias and local myopias – local government is the poor relation of Holyrood!
Gordon Munro looks back on missed opportunities to advance local democracy and delivery. The left in Scotland has been a
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We have devolution from Westminster but not from Holyrood: Scotland as a centralised state
James Mitchell decries the lack of local power in local government and advocates radical reform. Somewhere along the way, debate
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Editorial When politics trumped economics
As we begin 2021, 2020 should be remembered as the year in which politics trumped economics twice – on Brexit
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The struggle for Scotland: from marching to movement for the moment at hand
Keir McKechnie reports on how AUOB is changing not just to meet the times but to shape them too. Support
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Reuniting the left in Scotland
Using his personal experience, longstanding activist, John Dennis, calls for the radical left to come together again We face an
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Not yet even a half-way house: parliamentary progress on housing poverty
Graeme Brown reviews progress on housing and homelessness since 1999 1999 seems both close and very distant now. It’s hard
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Scottish Labour – the return of its radical roots
Mike Cowley says under Richard Leonard Scottish Labour is back on its way to influence In November 2017, Scottish Labour
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